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Morris dancing is sexy pass it on

#morris dancing #it's leaping it's fancy it gets you outside #what's not to love lol

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Dance notation, 1716

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OH you're going to love this, because this is a Morris dance choreography notation from the collection of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library:

Now you have to embroider it. 😏

Incredibly excited to dance the Winter in and put the earth to sleep. A bed of leaves, a blanket of snow, and hence the winter winds shall blow or what have you.

#the other morris #dark morris #anti-morris #cotswold morris #debatably #this side only forms for the antimorris and has been dancing since the 90s #they claim to have inspired Wintersmith #was chuffed to have been poached from an unrelated dance-out in May for it #god willing I don't muck it up #thank you My Local Area for being hopelessly infested with morris dancers

There's a visiting border team from the UK, and half of them are on local Northwestern teams . . . I want what they have . . .

#morris #morris dancing #northwest morris #they hail from Northern England #Scotland #Wales #and Northern Ireland #with the power of their dialects combined I can hardly understand them #as it should be #they can hardly understand us either lmao #I love the English language #morrisposting on main

If there's not a rave in the men's bathroom, is it really a Morris ale?

#whenever a guy walks in to actually use the bathroom they all cheer his name #the youth are a menace lol #why am I not with them you ask?#too much of a square even for the morris youth #whoops #showered in the dark and now back in my tent #36 fahrenheit is great camping weather right #morrisposting on main

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so like how jacked can you get from morris dancing. how hard of a punch could you conceivably throw. asking for a friend

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update! i should’ve been asking about hard you could KICK. because the answer is hard.

dorobro

An addition for you to consider: stick dances. Depending on who you're dancing with. I've sticked so hard my forearms went numb before, so bludgeoning damage is definitely on the table.

(eminem voice) Will the real Bampton please stand up?

#this post brought to you by why do I know 3 different Bamptons from 3 different sides #morris dancing #morris #cotswold morris #presumably the fine people of Bampton have the answer #but good lord why are we doing 7 different things over here and calling it Bampton #I do like that you can trace which folk revival morris dancers were influential in which regions by how their Bamptons evolved #always fun to see #gets hella confusing at times like these when we're prepping for multiple performances though

I love my local county fair and all, but when will we have rush carts. Bonfires. Where is the drama, the pomp and circumstance . . . Sigh. At least there is an Ale in 2 weeks and I shall get my yearly Bonfire Allotment (critical for survival) at the Harvest Home feast

#morris #morris dancing #most of the US isn't old enough for its local festivals to feel weird and esoteric yet #as much as I appreciate a good asparagus festival and the like #gimme that so-removed-from-modern-daily-life-that-an-explanation-is -mandatory content PLEASE #I feel like most Ales I've been to are just a bunch of morris dancers forcibly descending on a bemused and unsuspecting town #so I guess to them it is lol #morrisposting on main

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#oh boy!!!!

Cons of Morris dancing one billion times per week: shin splints

Pros of Morris dancing: calves to make an 18th century maiden swoon

#or lad as some are inclined #morris #morris dancing #cotswold morris #border morris #ballroom dancing also helps with the calves #gotta love it when your special interests force you to exercise and socialize #very convenient

My Border side is making a conscious effort to standardize their style this season and I was just thinking about the richness and diversity of technique for something as simple as a double-step. I know . . . 9 or 10 standardized double step variations at this point??? To say nothing of the kind we do on the Border side. Fiddly Minutiae Are My Passion. I am excited to continue refining my technique and very excited to continue winnowing the new style

#morris dancing #morris #cotswold morris #we were working on fieldtown technique today #the breadth of morris technique is truly wild to me #only to be mostly unappreciated by the onlooker because a lot of the overall impression is similar #ah well #morrisposting on main

I love how spinny and swirly Fieldtown heys are. The circular motions bring joy to my soul. None of the other regional Cotswold styles my team dances are quite so round as Fieldtown.

#morris dancing #morris #cotswold morris #fieldtown #my team are total dance sluts so we do a LOT of styles #I think 6 actively at the moment?#with plans to revive a 7th this year #friendship ended with Bampton we dance Headington now #but between all the current active members there's probably at least 12 styles represented #yikes #morrisposting on main

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Miniature Morris Mascots based on various Cotswold, Border, and Garland teams in and around New England. recently premiered these at NEFFA, and will be bringing them to this year's Marlboro Ale!

#one of my teams is represented here!#and several locals #these dolls were delightful thank you for making them #and ignore the fact I'm reblogging a season late

I regret to inform all 3 real people that follow this blog that Morris dancing is my current special interest, I can contain it no longer, I've already made it everyone else's problem IRL and I'm about to make it yours too.

#I'll be so real I hardly remember how hashtags are supposed to work #morris #morris dancing #cotswold morris #border morris #and I won't be a poser by listing forms I don't currently dance #northwest team in the united states WHEN #morrisposting on main

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